The Indians played their first official Test match at the Mecca of Cricket, Lord’s in 1932 under the leadership of Col C.K Nayudu. The seeds were sown then and there as the Indians got to know more about the game…
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What do you do when a good book is lying on your bookshelf? You read and learn. Recently, I got an opportunity to read ‘ The Palace of Illusions’ by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. While Bollywood is still trying to make…
Have you ever felt a deep connection with a book? The kind of connection where you are vulnerable yet strong. Have you ever stayed up all night reading a book, even when your eyes were screaming for sleep? Did it…
Washing hands, wearing masks and using sanitizer can protect us to fight Corona Virus physically. But, what about the mental trauma caused by the lock down? In these hard times of isolation and social distancing, books can save our day…
Books about food are books about love. Food is equivalent to love. How the spices melt on your tongue to unite with each other to give you happiness. It is a beautiful love story. There are many Indian authors or…
Are you bored? Let me re-frame that, are you bored already? The world has come to a standstill and what is very surprising is that people are all cranky about being bored. What if I tell you that you can…
Streets are void, transportation is at pause, Saturday parties have disappeared, cigarettes have left the troposphere with their smoke, hangovers are over, fast food have become too fast to even catch and Swiggy, Zomato have become rhyming words of Twiggy…
Bollywood film-makers have not once, not twice but have adapted plays of William Shakespeare many times through Omkara (Othello), Haider (Hamlet), Ram Leela (Romeo and Juliet), Maqbool (Macbeth), 10ml Love (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Qayamat se Qayamat tak (Romeo and…
India is known for its culture and traditions and beautiful landscapes and technology and movies and values, but mostly for its food. What binds India together into one nation is food. Fight me but that’s one hundred percent true and…
3 Idiots directed by Rajkumar Hirani is a 2009 Bollywood movie which is supposed to be the adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘Five Point Someone’. While Bhagat’s novel did well commercially, it did not manage to receive good critical acclaim….